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		<title>Free gift from Education Consumers Foundation!</title>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2011/12/06/free-gift-from-education-consumers-foundation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it unusual to get something for free that is actually worth a lot? The good folks over at Education Consumers Foundation (ECF) are giving away a small book that is quite valuable, and I encourage readers to download it, read it, and tell their friends to get it, too. What are they giving away? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the teaching that matters</title>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2011/12/05/its-the-teaching-that-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does all the verbiage about the ills of education make you wonder about the reasoning skills of educational reformers? Well, it does make me have questions. I practice resisting the urge to walk away when people start attributing educational underachievement to problems we educators can&#8217;t change (poverty, for example) or to features of schooling that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching spelling promotes general literacy</title>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2011/05/09/teaching-spelling-promotes-general-literacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 15:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Using Encoding Instruction to Improve the Reading and SpellingPerformances of Elementary Students At Risk for Literacy Difficulties: A Best-Evidence Synthesis,&#8221; professsors Beverly Weiser and Patricia Mathes of Southern Methodist University reviewed of studies of the effects of spelling instruction on literacy performance and found that systematic instruction in helping students to convert speech into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McNergney: Small teaching</title>
		<link>http://TeachEffectively.com/2010/12/23/mcnergney-small-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague, Robert McNergney has a post on Education News entitled &#8220;Small Ball: Small Teaching&#8221; that captures an important idea: Pay attention to the details. He based his brief essay on an enquiry from a student about whether he had read a well-known book about baseball, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by [...]]]></description>
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